FLAK Now on DVD!
30/11/09 13:33 Filed in: Flak
FLAK is now available on DVD! Purchase for only $9.99 from DVDSWELIKE.COM!
Made by Ron Mann when he was 16, FLAK is a look into an unpolished Toronto of the past, and an insightful window onto current social predicaments.
“It cannot be doubted that we live in a complacent time..."
So says the introduction to this recently re-released work of angry, political drama, which Ron Mann made when he was just 16 years old.
In 1970s Toronto, a group of young men living in the shadows of a gypsum plant discuss the political options availble to average citizens in a post-1960s world. To combat the befouling of their air, some advocate for "proper channels," others for bombs. Through raw, 16mm black-and-white footage of heated arguments, distractions and daily routines, and with a mournful soundtrack, Mann gives us a portrait of political frustration from 30 years ago which looks eerily like a cross-section of the same attitudes and issues that fuel today's headlines.
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Made by Ron Mann when he was 16, FLAK is a look into an unpolished Toronto of the past, and an insightful window onto current social predicaments.